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Company I was working for in the 1990s bought a PowerStack II machine to test on. This was the same but in a regular PC looking case. Of course being difficult
by gw98 4y ago
Company I was working for in the 1990s bought a PowerStack II machine to test on. This was the same but in a regular PC looking case. Of course being difficult the guy assigned this tried to put NT on it. After a week he couldn't work out how to get it to boot NT so the thing ended up in the corner of the office until it was chucked in a skip in the early 2000s.
We were a Sun shop mostly until Windows 2000 came out and then I left when I saw the death of Unix on the horizon.
- nine_k 4y agoIt's interesting how for me year 2000 was the flourishing of Unix, not death: by that time, all the servers around me were running Linux or FreeBSD, and my desktop / laptop since then was invariably either Linux or sometimes MacOS. I didn't have to touch Windows at work until 2020.
- gw98 4y agoI worked at a large engineering firm. It went all Windows when everyone got fed up of paying Sun for CAD machines.